Dewey Lane - Class of 2020

(Wakefield)

A three-sport athlete at Wakefield High School, the 1949 graduate inaugurated the football program at Ashley, Mich. High School in 1960, then two years later returned home. Lane spent 22 years as Wakefield’s head football coach, twice becoming U.P. coach of the year. He joined the Michigan High School Football Coach’s Hall of Fame in 1988. He also spent 11 years as the school’s track coach, three seasons as the varsity baseball coach, and two years as the varsity boys basketball coach. Lane also spent 29 seasons as an assistant basketball coach. Lane also helped save football at Wakefield and neighboring Bessemer by ushering in the Gogebic Miners co-op program.